Culture of indiscriminate violence is partly being set-up
Waltzing Matilda | 03.06.2003 15:30
With reference to the Wombles Report from Evian, this is an excellent report.
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http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=70605&group=webcast
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One criticism to the photos put out earlier on the Wombles website (which are not accessible now - REF:
http://wombles.org.uk/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=G8Evian). I'm afriad you lot are self-congratulating yourselves of naughty stuff you got up to in Evian. So what that you were Wombles smashing windows. I'm sure anarcho types/black block from Europe aren't patting themselves on the back in their home countries saying "we're from such-&-such group, and here we were smashing stuff up in Evian". PERHAPS, THOUGH THAT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ANARCHIST/NILIHIST GROUPS WHO WANT SOCIETY TO BURN DOWN! (Names I've heard metioned include the Teutonico Black Block, and an extremist Aryan-supremacist political group called Npd).
They sound like agent provocateur groups like Baader Meinhof and RAF were in the 1970s - used to justify further police powers. Horst Mahler - former RAF terrorist - is now head of the Npd.
The trend/fashion amongst the anti-capitalist brigade at the moment is for violent upheaval. Our detracters try to claim the movement is divided and split as a result. The problem is that this becomes a possibility when the violence becomes indiscriminate - it does isolate some people in our movement (for instance, in 1999, I remember seeing a couple geeting their car turned over and beaten up in London on June 18th just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time - the action by a few mindless thugs brought a justifiably angry reaction from other protestors).
Violence is fine. But it must be targetted. Otherwise, they use it as an excuse against us.

They sound like agent provocateur groups like Baader Meinhof and RAF were in the 1970s - used to justify further police powers. Horst Mahler - former RAF terrorist - is now head of the Npd.
The trend/fashion amongst the anti-capitalist brigade at the moment is for violent upheaval. Our detracters try to claim the movement is divided and split as a result. The problem is that this becomes a possibility when the violence becomes indiscriminate - it does isolate some people in our movement (for instance, in 1999, I remember seeing a couple geeting their car turned over and beaten up in London on June 18th just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time - the action by a few mindless thugs brought a justifiably angry reaction from other protestors).
Violence is fine. But it must be targetted. Otherwise, they use it as an excuse against us.
Waltzing Matilda
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